This tax, dear to the Socialists of Vooruit, aims to make contribute “the widest shoulders” to the budgetary effort that Belgium has set itself, by taxing the gains made during the resale of financial assets (shares, bonds).
In a press release, the Deputy Prime Minister of the MAXIME PRÉVOT committed evokes “a major turning point towards a more equitable taxation”. “This agreement is not a symbol. It is a CAP crossed, a concrete act so that everyone contributes more adequately according to their means. It is a reform of justice, responsibility and consistency. We can no longer always ask those who work, while leaving the capital income outside the field of tax. It was appropriate that the strongest shoulders take their fair share of the collective effort, ”he continues.
If the precise methods of this agreement are not yet known, small savers seem spared, according to Maxime Prévot: “This measure was calibrated not to aim for small savers or small independent. It is targeted, proportionate, designed not to hinder investment or private initiative. It targets those who make important capital gains, in a spirit of tax justice ”.
Alexia Bertrand, head of Open VLD group in the House and former secretary of state in the Vivaldi budget, said on X find “surprising that a right -wing finance minister is proud to create a new tax without having deleted any”.
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The main ministers of the Wever team had met on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. to implement this provision of the government agreement source of tensions in the coalition for almost a year.
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